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Weapons (2025): Horror That Hides a Social Critique

Horror has long been fertile ground for exploitation cinema, but it has also served as a playground for filmmakers to smuggle in sharp social commentary, tucked between jump scares and visceral set pieces. Weapons (2025), the latest from Zach Cregger, confidently walks both paths. It’s a taut, impeccably crafted genre film and, at the same time, an unsettling meditation on violence and its chilling presence within schools and in the lives of children.

Dangerous Animals (2025): A Classic Horror Flick

Posted on August 5 by Hugo Pagan Soto

Horror has defined the short but striking career of Australian director Sean Byrne. Dangerous Animals (2025) is his third feature film, and once again, he walks the path of scares. In this new project, Byrne blends the serial killer formula with the kind of horror found in monster movies—specifically the shark attack subgenre.

The Monkey (2025): The Art of Macabre Humor

Posted on May 1 by Hugo Pagan Soto

With The Monkey (2025), Osgood Perkins continues building a legacy that positions him as a future cult director. For some, what he achieved with Longlegs—which I consider one of the best films of 2024—would have been enough. With his latest work, he confirms his sharp talent for telling macabre stories. He steps away from the serious and psychological tone of his previous film to deliver a black comedy that leans into supernatural horror to torment the audience.

SINNERS (2025): The Devil’s Blues

Posted on April 21 by Hugo Pagan Soto

As an art form, cinema has at its core the vocation to entertain the audience. Sinners (2025), by Ryan Coogler, fully embraces both audiovisual artistry and cinematic spectacle. The director and screenwriter crafts a work that invites critical analysis from multiple angles while delighting the audience on a journey reminiscent of those bygone summer blockbusters. Here, substance and style merge to create a genre film that plays with clichés and conventions to uncover its unique essence.

Heretic: An Intense Experience

Posted on December 31 by Hugo Pagan Soto

If there is one film genre that thrives in confined spaces and is grounded in a single location, it is horror. Heretic by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods serves as the perfect example to support this premise. The directors confine us to a house and, for much of the runtime, to a single room. Using this creative device, they manage to maximize tension and keep the viewer captivated, eagerly awaiting the story’s resolution. Of course, many other examples across different genres also take advantage of the virtues of shooting in a single location, from my perspective, none fit as seamlessly into this ecosystem as horror does.